All 11 Uses
luminous
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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- "It must be the real truth," says the waitress, sucking in her lower lip, her luminous eyes turning sadly, seeking the windows.†
Story 1.16 *
- The luminous ranges of all the clouds stretched one beyond the other in heavenly order.†
Story 2.18
- Murrell, in suspicion pursuing all glances, blinking into a ha2e, saw only whiteness ensconced in darkness, as if it were a little luminous shell that drew in and held the eyesight.†
Story 2.20
- His coat long and wide and leaf-green he opened like doors to see his high-up tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt.†
Story 2.24
- He slept sitting up with his back against a tree, his head pillowed in the luminous Panama, his snorting mouth drawn round in a perfect heart open to the green turning world around him.†
Story 3.28
- Luminous of course but hidden from them, Moon Lake streamed out in the night.†
Story 3.29
- She slept in the bedroom rocker, in the luminous veil of her dress, the cocoon of her head hanging upon it, and the fan let fall from her fingers.†
Story 3.32
- He put up a little horned finger and touched a string on the old banjo of her father's, which hung on its nail In the hall, the head faintly luminous by morning light.†
Story 3.32
- Virgie looked at the naked, luminous, complicated flower, large and pale as a face on the dark porch.†
Story 3.32
- Vague, luminous, smiling, her big white face held a moment and bent down for its kiss.†
Story 4.35
- And as she came through the door, they saw appearing from behind her Aldo Scampo, almost luminous himself in a clean white shirt.†
Story 4.39
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.